UPDATE: Patreon Changes--Please Read! (Patreon)

Heya!!

--to all my café sitters and coffee lovers! (You don’t have to love coffee to be a patron; tea or other cozy drinks are also permitted <3)

I hope you’re all doing well and that the change in season is giving you plenty of good autumnal vibes.  

With the change of seasons comes some shifts in life as well. This update will discuss and explain some fairly major changes coming to the patreon in the next couple of months. I want to be able to address any questions or concerns that anyone may have, so please give this post a read.

A Solo Venture

The first major update is that I will be officially taking over the patreon as a solo venture. Steph has been a part of this team for years and while she would love to continue creating work for the patreon she has made the decision to focus on her fulltime career. She’s been so successful at her job and I’m so incredibly proud of her, its truly the right decision for both of us. However this doesn’t mean that you will never see her art here again! Any time the two of us work on collaborations, that work will be posted here first and foremost, as usual. :> 

Because of this, the “legacy rewards”, otherwise known as the tutorials and walkthroughs that steph created for the patreon back at its inception, will be phased out as a reward. If you are in a tier that currently grants access to said rewards (which you can check on your tier description) then you will be able to request those rewards until the end of November. At which point they will be retired from the patreon.

This also means that Demon Road will be removed from the patreon as well, as the comic is written and drawn by Steph, except the re-draw of the first chapter that I contributed, as well as collaboration on the cover art. This means that all patrons will have access to the full comic until the end of November.  If and when DR comes out of its hiatus status we will evaluate if it will continue its run here on my Patreon or not, but in the mean time, it will be retired.

Streamlining

As the former change is fairly major, there will be a few updates to the patron tiers and how rewards are delivered!  The tiers will be streamlined to be more in line with what I offer as a solo content creator. A few tiers will be disappearing to help simplify the patreon overall and since I’m taking freelance work (which is 99% of the time under NDA u_u) and working on the patreon, this simplification will help me in droves! Not having to divide my work up into multiple categories when posting is such a benefit that truly adds up over time. I will go into the new tier breakdown in more detail later on in this update.

With that in mind, the way that rewards will be delivered is going to shift too! Rather than PM out dropbox links to large bundles of files that need to be downloaded all at once, they will all be posted directly to the feed as they are created, either as a link in the description or as an attachment to the post itself. This means PSD resources (such as paintings and linearts) will be immediately accessible. Because of this, you will also be able to easily browse past rewards on the timeline from now on. Since payment is up front on my patreon, upon joining you’ve already paid for your subscription and rewards.

The honor system will also continue as normal -- my request is that you simply do not share any of the exclusive rewards outside of my patreon.

The Tier Updates

Most of the updates are quality of life upgrades for both myself and you, my patrons. There’s a little bit of wording that has been changed to reflect the earlier updates :) Since most of these changes will be going into effect over the next couple months I would love to hear your feedback and suggestions on them now so that I can gauge if I need to make adjustments for any reason.

The Tip Jar

The tip jar will remained unchanged!  Huzzah!!

The Decaf Tier

The decaf tier will now be giving discord access to everyone, which was originally in the 5$ tier. Decaf users will also have access to every piece of art that is posted to the feed. First priority on commission slots will still be a reward to the patreon in general! Whenever I open commissions they will be opened here first. To reflect these changes, the decaf tier will be increasing from 2$ to 3$ a month.

The Cafe Latte Tier + Con Panna Tier

The 5$ tier will be divided up between the 3$ and 15$ tier. If you were here strictly for the artwork in its jpg form on the feed then you’ll probably be comfortable jumping down to the 3$ tier! It will still grant you the discord access that the 5$ tier previously did. :) If you’re looking for more process, shop discounts, PSDs, resources, etc. than the 15$ is probably where you’re gonna wanna be! 

The 15$ tier will now also include 18+ content! But no fear, if you’re not interested in 18+ content, there will two identical tiers listed in the 15$ category; one will have the 18+ and one will not! So if you sign up to the tier with no 18+ content you will never see those works on your feed.

The Moccacino + Dripfeed Tier

The final two tiers will also remained unchanged <3! 

Final Thoughts

I think that about covers this pretty hefty update, and I hope it wasn't too overwhelming to read through! Some of the names of the tiers will be changing too, to reflect that the 5$ tier will be disappearing from the lineup.   In any case, please reach out to me or leave a comment here so I can hear your thoughts. This is always a group effort and I really want to make sure that any changes I make are going to fit right for the group. 

You guys have been incredibly supportive over the past year, during my ups and downs and helping me through some extremely tough times, so I can't thank you enough for your continued outreach and support. 

Cheers,

Hunter